Ephesos (Ionia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), early I CE
IEph 738
= AE (1968), no. 486
= PHI 249124
= AGRW ID# 8229
Base found to the right of the entrance into the market (agora). The businessman or merchant may belong to the association of businessmen attested in other inscriptions from Ephesos.
. . . The Council and the People (?). . . honored Lucius Vibius Varius, praetor of the Roman People and legate of Caesar. Euodion son of Philotheos who is engaged in business (pragmateuomenos) in Ephesos – having asked permission – set this up for his own benefactor from his own resources.
Translation by: Harland[ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμ]ος | [ἐτ]είμ[η]σαν | Λούκ[ιο]ν Οὐείβιον Οὐᾶ|ρον στρατηγὸν δήμο[υ] || Ῥωμαίων καὶ πρεσβευτ[ὴν] | Καίσαρος· | Εὐοδίων Φιλοθέου πραγμα|τευόμενος ἐν Ἐφέσῳ αἰτη|σάμενος ἀνέστησεν ἐκ τῶν || ἰδίων τὸν ἑαυτοῦ εὐεργέτην.
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